Across
- 3. Level the position that an organism occupies in a food chain, food web, or energy pyramid (e.g., producer, primary consumer, etc.)
- 5. An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms
- 9. the green substance (pigment) contained in the chloroplast of plant leaves that captures the energy in sunlight
- 12. process by which producers / plants use the energy in sunlight to create their own food
- 13. the process by which decomposers break down dead material and waste into simpler
Down
- 1. the energy of motion
- 2. Organism that uses energy from the sun and converts it to chemical energy through photosynthesis
- 4. diagram that demonstrates the flow of energy through a food chain
- 6. energy energy from the sun that turns into
- 7. a sugar molecule (food); product of photosynthesis; C6H12O6
- 8. heat energy
- 10. a structure in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll; site of photosynthesis
- 11. organism that breaks down dead tissue returning nutrients to the ground